Cardi B asked Shakira for advice about her eventual breakup from Offset
The 32-year-old rapper - who has Kulture, seven, Wave, four and Blossom, 12 months, with 33-year-old Offset - filed for divorce from the Open It Up rapper in July 2024 after seven years of marriage, and the previous year she asked the 48-year-old singer how she navigated her split from footballer Gerard Pique in 2022
8 October 2025
Appearing on the latest episode of Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast, Cardi B recalled: "I was like, 'How the f*** did you overcame this?'
"And [she's] like, 'It's going to happen.'
"And [I'm] like, 'It will never happen' and it happened. It took some crying. It took some thoughts, scary thoughts.
"But I'm here, honey, I'm here and I'm the strongest I've been."
Author Jay, 38, chimed in: "I love hearing that."
Earlier in the podcast episode, Cardi told Jay about her emotional healing process, following her and Offset's split.
The Girls Like You hitmaker reflected: "I felt my strongest when I was 22, 23, 24.
"That's when I felt like my strongest. And I was like, living in a power. And that's how I feel right now. Like I feel like I live in a power.
"It took months for the heart to say, 'You're done.'
"Instead of my mouth and my brain. My heart had to be like, 'You're done.' Because you could say it and you could take actions, but even if you take actions, if you're not done, you're not done."
Cardi B - who is pregnant with her fourth baby, her first with her 31-year-old New England Patriots wide receiver partner Stefon Diggs - shared the hopes she has for her and Offset's children.
She said: "It's discipline. It's gotta be in you, and you have to be better than me. I want you to be better than me. There's things that I cannot do that I want my kids to do.
"I want you to be smarter than me.
"I want you to be - not perfect because you cannot make your kids perfect and you don't want you to put pressure on your kids [to be] perfect - but I want you to be a 100 times better version than me, and I'm gonna [instill] that in you and you're gonna be mad and you're gonna be crying, but you're gonna appreciate that one day because I wish the things that that I put on my kids that somebody put in me when I was younger."
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